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‘We haven't been notified of how long he may be away, but we've resigned ourselves to around six months.’

‘A strange calm seemed to be settling over his whole body as he resigned himself to what was going to happen.’

‘Compounded by frost damage in following years, some farmers had resigned themselves to not planting a crop because of the bleak conditions.’

‘He sighed as he resigned himself to what seemed the best answer to protect his daughter from herself.’

‘After their dance at the ball Kate had resigned herself to politely ignoring him and would most likely think him mad if he even brought up the subject of love.’

‘‘Previous generations of women resigned themselves to old age when they turned 50,’ she says.’

‘So I dutifully checked my vaccinations were up-to-date - typhoid, tetanus, hepatitis A and all the rest - and resigned myself to six weeks of malaria tablets.’

‘Just when I resigned myself to not coaching, I had the job again.’

‘The main thing is getting back fit again no matter how long it takes and I have more or less resigned myself to not playing again this season.’

‘In the summer of 1647 and again in the autumn of 1648 a majority in the two Houses, unable to see the way forward, resigned themselves to accepting such terms as the king would accept.’

‘Seeing that a better world is possible pushes us to solve challenges that we once might have resigned ourselves to.’

‘My husband has resigned himself to my ‘hobby’ and accepts it.’

‘So he resigned himself to just thinking about the matters at hand.’

‘Stacey resigned herself to not competing, and went in for a second arthroscopic surgery.’

‘Ideally, many would love to see the former Victorian building and its extensive grounds restored to its former glory but they have resigned themselves to losing it to some sort of new housing scheme.’

‘We seem to have given up pretending to solve the problem and have resigned ourselves to merely coping with it.’

‘Sofia resigned herself to this fate with a dignified acceptance.’

‘But ultimately, I think they've probably resigned themselves to the fact that they're going to be attacked.’

‘Even the reporters who, previously, had resigned themselves to intent observation, were tapping their feet in time to the music, their lips moving silently.’

‘At the moment, it is extremely difficult to find a decent house either for rent or purchase at affordable rates and many people have resigned themselves to accepting anything called shelter.’

reconcile oneself to, become resigned to, become reconciled to, have no choice but to accept, come to terms with, learn to live with, get used to the idea of

‘The wife of a man born to be a leader need only resign herself to his guidance; whereas the wife of a fool, conscious of superior power, is bound to take the reins in her own hand if she would avert calamity.’

‘She had sufficient control over herself to accept his decision without a murmur, and to resign herself to his will.’

‘She looked once or twice at her brother in a way that made his heart ache; but she seemed to have resigned herself to his direction.’

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French resigner, from Latin resignare ‘unseal, cancel’, from re- ‘back’ + signare ‘sign, seal’.